17th century

Contains the text of the play about the swashbuckling Cyrano de Bergerac who secretly loves his cousin Roxane but believes he is too ugly to ever win her affection, and includes notes and a full introduction.

A short biography of seventeenth-century America leader, Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island as a haven for those of all religious beliefs.

Examines the life of sixteenth-century playwright and poet William Shakespeare, discussing major events and influences that shaped his work. Includes illustrations from the collections of the British Library.

A little girl seeks to regain her father's attention during the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland.

Gives a picture of English society and institutions just prior to America's colonization.

A new translation of the French drama set in seventeenth-century France telling of Cyrano de Bergera's secret love for Roxane.

A group of West Virginians accidentally plunged into the seventeenth-century in the midst of the Thirty Years' War uncover Spanish inquisitor Cardinal Gaspar Borja y Velasco's plot to weaken support for Pope Urban.